Museums in Busan
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Museums in Busan
The beautiful port city, Busan, located on the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula is the home for quite a large number of significant museums of the country of Korea. Museums in Busan are worth mentioning for their role played in making Busan an important city, holding museums on various fields. - Fisheries Science Museum, Busan, the country's first comprehensive science
museum and a marine museum contains a large collection of fishery related preserved
specimens from Korea and provides information about every aspects of the fisheries
in Korea.
- Busan Marine Natural History Museum, another exclusive marine museum,
is the first and the largest marine natural history museum in Korea and is one
of the most important museums in Busan.
- Busan Museum of Modern Art is a comprehensive art museum for exhibiting
diversified works of art created by people of Busan and Yungnam areas. Dongsam-dong
Shell Mound Exhibition Hall, Busan, an important exhibition hall of the Busan
Museum, exhibits important contents, especially shells and items made of shells
related to the history and culture of Korea during the Neolithic period.
- Korean Tea Museum, Busan exhibits a wide variety of 130 types of teas
as well as provides information about Korean traditional culture by exhibiting
items on traditional Korean tea ceremony.
- Nakdonggang Estuary Barrage Water Culture Hall, Busan, an exhibition
hall, at the estuary of Nakdonggang River exhibits variety of resources associated
with the natural ecological environment, value of water as well as the history
of the river Nakdonggang and hence can be treated as a type of small museum
on nature.
- Suyeong Historical Relics Folk Art Center, Busan, through different types
of art performance maintains intangible local cultural assets like Jwasuyoungbang-nori,
Suyoung Nonchong-nori etc and hence falls under the category of art museums
in Busan.
Apart from these important museums in Busan, the city also has several other
museums like Pusan National University Museum, Dong-A University Museum, Kyungsung
Culture Center and Museum, Dong-eui University Museum, Korea Maritime University
Museum, Silla University Museum, Dongju College Museum, Busan Metropolitan Museum,
Bokcheon Museum etc.
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